The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-15
UBIQUITOUS IsRAELITEs.
Their Adaptability to All Climates and
Conditions.

Conditions.
1t has frequently been remarked, says the
Je,ciSh World, that the Jewish race has a
wonderful power of adaptation to all eli
mates. Jews are found in all parts of the
globe, and seem to possess remarkable fac
ulty for acclimatization, even under the
most unfavorable circumstances. Mesopo-
tania is considered the mother coun-
try of the Abrahamic family, as well
as the cradle of the human race, Some
years ago a small colony of Jews were found
in the ancient city of Seminar, in the south
of Mesopotamia, and in the vicinity of
ancient Babylon. OF the seventy families
composing the colony, one claimed to be
descended from King Joachim, the rest
from the house of Levi. A colony of Jews
appear to have settled in China about the
beginning of the third century of the Chris
tian era, under the dynasty of Han. In
1904, Father Gouzani, a Roman Catholic
missionary, found seven Jewish families
near Pekin.
In 1856 Portuguese Jew of Amsterdam,
named DePavia, discovered a sect of Jews
in Cochin, China According to tradition
preserved among them, they were descended
from a tribe of Jews who had quilted
Palestine on the destruction of the second
temple. From their long residence in
Cochin they had become completely
bronzed. These are not the same as the
Malabar Jews. The Jewish traveller, Ben
jamin, sometimes called Benjamin the Sec
ond discovered colony of Jews, evidently
of Persian origin, in Hindoostan. They
were known as "Babylonian jews" on
account of their having migrated from
Babylonia. They observed the essential
rites Of Judaism, and strictly avoided inter-
marriage with other sects. In the begin
ming of the seventeenth century Jewish
colony settled in Cayenne, in the West
Indies, one of the most inhospitable eli
mates in South America.
Cayenne was subsequently conquered by
the French, who made penal settlement,
and the Jewish colony was forced to retire
to Surinsm. Notwithstanding frequent
prosecutions Jews are still found in Persia,
more especially to the south of the Caspian
sea, where the soil is very fertile, but the
climate very unhealthy. The principal city
is Balprosh where about $50 Jewish families
reside i'll almost complete isolation. They
trade with their brethren in Great Tartary,
and are engaged in the wool and silk trade,
or in the sale of citrons. They, too, trace
their origin to the Babylonian captivity,
for, according to tradition still possessed
among them, their ancestors settled in Per-
STA in the time of Nebuchadnezzer, and did
not respond to the appeal of Ezra to return
to Palestine. Their mode of life resembles
that or the PerslanS IN general They
hold the beard in high esteem
and wear long flowing robes. They have
several synagogues and obtain scrolls of the
law from Bagdad. The celebrated African
traveller, Mungo Park, found colony of
Jewish families in the heart of Africa, about
800 miles from the coast. 1t is, no doubt,
this popularity of the Jewish race which in
duced a French writer on Medical Geogra-
ply" to express the opinion that sit is ques-
tionable whether the crossing of human
varieties confers on the issue constant adj
vantages in relation to the species, for the
Jewish race seems in a wonderful manner
capable of adapting itself to every change
of climate, while others are scarcely able to
bear the least change"
The Jew is found in every part of the
world; in Europe, from Norway to Gibral-
tar; in Africa, from Algiers to the Cape of
Good Hope; in Asia, from Cochin to eau
casus; from Jaffa to Pekiu. He has peo-
pied Australia, and has given proof of his
powers of decentralization under the tropics,
where people Of European origin have con-
stantly failed to perpetuate themselves.